Slot-machine.



J. H. EGAN.

SLOT MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY18, I916.

Patented J an. 30, 1917.

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SLOT MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY I8. 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed July 18, 1916. Serial N 0. 109,940.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. EGAN, citizen of the United States,residing at Ocean City, in the county of Cape May and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSlot-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to so-called slot machines of that type employedto deliver an article or articles upon the deposit of one or more coinsof proper value, and it is particularly intended for delivering tokensor checks which may be used for the purchase of sodawater or othergoods, the 'object being to provide an improved device of the kind whichmay be operated by a purchaser to obtain soda checks or .the like whichcan afterward be exchanged for the goods.

in the present machine the proper coin acts to form a connection betweena pusher which is operated by hand and a delivery plate or plates whichwork under the bottom of a magazine containing the tokens to bedelivered. There are two of the delivery plates and magazines, and thearrangement is such that one or both can be operated.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in whichFigure 1 is a vertical section on the line ll1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2- is acentral vertical section across the machine. Fig. 3 is a top plan viewof the base of the machine with the magazines and upper part removed.Fig. 1- is a top plan of the machine. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the basewith the delivery plates and pushers shown in Fig. 3 removed. Fig. 6 isan inverted plan view of the bottom of the upper part of the machinewhich was removed in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a detail of the operating lever.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6

' is a hollow base of inverted cup-shape having openings 7 to permit thefall of a token int a delivery chute 8, and also having slots 9 topermit the passage of coins into the runways 10 leading to exposurerunways 11 which extend outside of the base and which deliver into acash box 12 in the bottom thereof. Upon this base is mounted a glasscontainer 13 in which are cylindrical magazines 14: which may be filledwith tokens or checks through slots 15 in the top thereof. Behind themagazines the container has a compartment 16 closed by a bottom 17 forholding straws 18 or the like. The container top 19 also has openings 200011111111111 eating with coin chutes 21 which correspond with themagazines. The bottom plate 17 of the container has on the under sidethereof depending frames 23 which support horizontal plates each ofwhich has an opening 25 through the same. The front end of each of thesopenings is reduced as indicated at 26, to a width slightly less thanthat of a proper coin delivered thereto from the chute 21, while thewider part of the opening is suiiiciently large to allow the coin todrop when it is moved to the rear.

The container is connected to the base by a pair of rods 28 extendingthrough lugs 29 on the inside of the base.

The top plate 30 of the base has a central rib 31 at each side of whichis a groove 32, and mounted to slide upon this plate, at each side ofthe rib, is a delivery plate 33 which has a flange 34: that travels inthe groove 32, which serves to guide and retain the plate. Each platealso has an opening 35 which normally registers with the bottom of thecorresponding magazine 14:, so that the lowest token rests in theopening in the delivery plate, where it is normally supported by theadiacent part of the top plate 30 and by a small tongue 36 on theunderside of the plate. Each delivery plate also has a coin slot 37located behind the opening 30; also a v uide slot 38 in which works apin 39 projecting from the plate 30.

Mounted upon or above the delivery plates is a sliding cross-shapedplate dOgvhichIwill term the pusher plate. This is guided by a pindlwhich projects through a slot42therein and another pin 43 which projectsthrough a slot 44: therein, these pins or screws being set into holes 15in the rib 31. The rear end of the plateeiO is turned up as indicated atas and a spring 47 is connected thereto, and to the pin a1, and tends tohold the pusher plate in forward position. This plate has two arms 48,and mounted upon each arm is a short chute section, comprising ppositefront and rear plates 19, and this section is in line with a slot 50 inthe plate. Pins 51 act to stop the forward movement of the pusher plate,due to the spring, and this chute section 15) projects upwardly throughthe space 25 between its edges 26 and 27 and between the side pieces 23of the frame above described, when the parts are assembled.

is a chute for undersized coins, adapted to return the same to theoutside of the machine.

Each delivery plate has at its outer edge a depending arm 61, with arearwardly projecting finger 62 which, when the delivery plate is pushedback, passes through an opening 63 in the chute 10 and acts to stop acoin in said chute. Each plate also has a depending arm 64: with aforwardly projecting finger 65 which, when the delivery plate isadvanced, acts to stop a coin in the exposure chute 11 and expose thesame at the opening 66 therein.

For operating the pusher plate I provide a finger lever 7 O which ispivoted at 71 to a bracket 72' in the container, and this lever has aprojection 73 which extends into an openingi'e in the front end of thepusher plate.

The operation is as follows: The magazines being loaded with tokens orchecks, the lowermost rest in the openings 35 of the respective deliveryplates 38, where they are supported by the adjacent parts of the topplate 30 and the tongues 36. hen the proper coin is deposited in one ofthe coin chutes 21 it falls through the same and between the two plates49, where it is stopped by the edges 26 of the plate 24, in such position that the lower or ge of the coin will extend or project into theslot 37 in the delivery plate 33. This connects the delivery plate withthe pusher plate, at that side of the machine. Then by pressing on thelever the pusher plate 40 is pushed back and carries with it thedelivery plate 30 on that side, and this delivery plate carries backwardthe token in the opening 35 until it registers with the opening 7, whenthe token will fall through the opening and out the delivery chute 8. Atthe same time, at the limit of -the backward movement, the coin reachesthe wide part 27 of the stop plate 24, and registers with the slot 9,and

will then be released and will drop through said slot into the chute 10where it is temporarily held by the finger 62. When the finger lever 70is released the pusher and delivery plates are returned by the spring 47to original position and the finger 62 is then retracted and the coin inthe chute 10 rolls out into the chute 11 where it is stopped and heldand can be seen through the opening 66. At the next operation, the coinin the chute 11 is released by the backward movement of the finger 65and drops from said chute into the cash box 12.

If two coins are deposited in the chutes 21, both of the delivery plates33 will be connected to the pusher plate 40, and when the latter ispushed back both of the delivery plates will also be pushed back, andwill deliver two tokens, one from the five cent magazine and one fromthe ten cent magazine, for example.

If an undersized coin is deposited in the chute 21 it will pass betweenthe edges 26 of the stop plate 24: and fall down through the opening 37into the chute 60 by which it will be returned outside of the machine.

It will be seen that by means of the double arrangement either one ortwo tokens may be delivered at a single operation. Thus it a five centdrink is wanted a five cent token may be obtained. It a ten cent, or twofive cent drinks are wanted, the ten cent side is operated; or both aten cent and five cent token may be obtained simultaneously by operatingboth sides. The exposure chutes 11 enable the deposited coins to be seenafter they pass through the operating mechanism, and before they aredropped into the cash box.

I claim:

1. The combination of a magazine for articles, a sliding delivery platethereunder having an opening for the bottom article, and a coin slot, acoin chute, a frame at the lower end of the coin chute having a narrowpart adapted to engage and stop a coin with its edge in said slot and awider part a da pted to release said coin, a pusher plate -slidable uponthe delivery plate and having a short chute section projecting intoz-aid frame and adapted to engage a coin stopped therein and shift thesame to the wider part of the frame.

2. The combination with a sliding delivery plate, of an operating coinmechanism associated therewith, an exposure chute leading vfrom saidmechanism, having an opening through which a coin may be seen, and anarm carried by said plate and projecting across said chute in positionto stop a coin opposite said opening at each operation of the plate.

3. The combination of a coin chute having a frame at the lower endthereof provided with an opening having a narrow end adapted to stop acoin, and :1 wide end adapted to release the same. a. sliding articledelivery plate having a slot into which the edge of a coin projects whenit is so stopped, and a. sliding pusher plate having a short chutesection lo ated between said chute and slot and projecting into saidframe and adapted to engage a coin therein and shift the same to thewide end thcreot to release the same, said coin acting to slide thedelivery plate when so shifted, and means to restore the plates tooriginal position.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

JAMES H. EGAN.

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